: a punctuation mark - used especially to divide or to compound words, word elements, or numbers
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ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
Asked to comment on Trump bringing back the hyphen, the ADL deemphasized the significance of how the term is spelled.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018
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Noun
But Micro-Soft, later renamed to drop the hyphen and relocated to its current headquarters in Redmond, Washington, would be the company that would transform personal computing over the next five decades.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Apr. 2025
Asked to comment on Trump bringing back the hyphen, the ADL deemphasized the significance of how the term is spelled.
—Asaf Elia-Shalev, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
Normally, closed caption subtitling bleeps words in a variety of different ways: phrases, such as (bleep), [expletive], or [censored] may be used, though sometimes hyphens or asterisks are substituted instead (f–k, f---, or f*** are all examples.
—Ace Ratcliff, SELF, 10 July 2018
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“Hyphen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyphen. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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